Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles as well as Janet King have actually quietly created a broad series of supreme ewe as well as cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.
Kingsmeade began making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain and also lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep allow, contented and also filled with personality-- no need to round them up at milking time, they listen to Miles' voice and also come on their very own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records and genetic studies, Miles' flock has developed into New Zealand's initial registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes nine different varieties of cheese, many from ewe's milk and some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, varying from aged hard varieties to deliciously creamy.
Tranquility and also silently spoken, Miles is hands-on from the very first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the everyday milking, cheesemaking, cutting and also packaging. Each batch of cheese is hand made in the factory on the farm, appropriate beside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders throughout New Zealand.